Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:24:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Not in any useful way.  If I go look at the file history, which is what
> I'm going to do when tracking down a bug, all I see on the files included
> in this changeset is akpm@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> That means any annotated listing (BK or CVS blame) shows the wrong author.

One of the ways that I often use for tracking down potential fixes is
to simply do "bk changes > /tmp/foo" and then use emacs's incremental
search to look for interesting potential changes.  (I know, you're
probably throwing up all over your keyboard just about now.  :-)

One "interesting" thing I've wished for is to be able to do "bk
revtool drivers/net/wireless/airo.c", and then when I put my mouse
over a particular line number, have it display in a little popup box 
the changelog description of whatever line my mouse happened to 
be over.  It would be a real pain to try to implement that in tcl/Tk, 
though....  that would make it easier to solve the specific problem
you've mentioned of "bk blame" showing the wrong author when looking 
at a particular source file.

						- Ted
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